For some strange reason it took me a long time to disgest Henry Cow maybe 2 years to finally 'get it'. I liked their albums, but never saw the 'masterpiece' values in them. Now I adore the band. My two favourites are probably LegEnd and In the Praise of Learning, hard to sparate those two albums.

I saw Skeleton Crew live and picked up Learn To Talk and Speechless which were sold at the show. I had been introduced to Frith via his work with Eno, but those two albums cemented me as a fan. Pleasantly surprised to find there was a second SC album when the remaster for Learn To Talk came out combined with The Country of the Blinds.

I have many solo Friths but still haven't delved into any of his other projects, with the exception of the Residents, whom he's guested with. Also don't forget the two French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson albums where oddly enough, Frith only plays no guitar but serves as the bassist.

I saw Skeleton Crew live and picked up Learn To Talk and Speechless which were sold at the show. I had been introduced to Frith via his work with Eno, but those two albums cemented me as a fan. Pleasantly surprised to find there was a second SC album when the remaster for Learn To Talk came out combined with The Country of the Blinds.

I have many solo Friths but still haven't delved into any of his other projects, with the exception of the Residents, whom he's guested with. Also don't forget the two French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson albums where oddly enough, Frith only plays no guitar but serves as the bassist.

It isn't terribly odd when you consider that he originally joined Henry Cow as a bass player.

The band was formed by Frith in 1988 to perform selections from his career up to that point, including some unrecorded material from the Henry Cow era as well as his various post HC projects. There's nothing from Art Bears, but otherwise it pretty much covers all the bases. The recordings were made during a 1991 European tour, but weren't released until a couple of years ago.

'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

I saw Skeleton Crew live and picked up Learn To Talk and Speechless which were sold at the show. I had been introduced to Frith via his work with Eno, but those two albums cemented me as a fan. Pleasantly surprised to find there was a second SC album when the remaster for Learn To Talk came out combined with The Country of the Blinds.

I have many solo Friths but still haven't delved into any of his other projects, with the exception of the Residents, whom he's guested with. Also don't forget the two French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson albums where oddly enough, Frith only plays no guitar but serves as the bassist.

It isn't terribly odd when you consider that he originally joined Henry Cow as a bass player.

No he didn't - he formed Henry Cow with Tim Hodgkinson in 1968 when the two of them improvised on guitar and alto sax, and John Greaves, the original bassist, joined shortly afterwards.

Frith played bass and guitar on the last Henry Cow album, Western Culture, because Georgie Born (who replaced Greaves in 1976) had already left. He also played bass, and everything else apart from drums, in Art Bears, and went on to play bass with Zorn's Naked City. He also played some bass in Keep the Dog and Skeleton Crew.

'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

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